To all Our Well-Beloved Royals, Nobles and Knights, and all Our other Well-Beloved Citizens whatsoever to whom these Presents shall come, Greetings:

WHEREAS We have learned that the Magnificent Law Lord Sir Raudúlfr Bloodhelm, The Earl of Haldarsvik has died;

AND WHEREAS We, the Imperial Government, and the People of Our Most Sovereign and Noble Viking Empire want to express our grief and sorrow;

LET IT THEREFORE BE KNOWN that We, Harald Thorstein I the Generous Giver, The Sovereign Viking Emperor, do by this Our Imperial Instrument declare that this day, the Thirtieth Day of the Month Noatun shall be a day of National Mourning within this Our Most Sovereign and Noble Viking Empire in recognition whereof all flags on Imperial Government Buildings and Vessels shall by flown at half-mast and all Offices of Our Imperial Government shall be closed.

So be it!!

Given at Our Hall in Haraldsborg, in Our Thanedom of Gulathing, under Our Hand and the Great Seal of Our Most Sovereign and Noble Viking Empire on the Thirtieth Day of the Month Noatun in the Fifth Year of the Second Viking Age.